I hear you. But this is a duel cpu / duel NIC server board running not just my "desktop", but all my server dev software. Got to develop on something with a similar profile...
Cursive is an art form, best left to those who have a reason to become competent at it (calligraphists).
It may be an "art form" now, since schools don't teach it, but I use it every day and I'm only 50.
At interviews, one of the things I do is hand the job-seeker a yellow pad and a sheet of paper with some text. I ask them to transcribe it to the yellow pad. The first strike is if the interviewee has no writing implement.
Being able to write with a pen and paper is a sign of intelligence and education. Inability to do so means you will not be working where I work.
What are you doing "gaming" in the living room? Dude, you are now MARRIED. Turn the spare bedroom into your "man cave". The living room is your wife's domain.
My Linux "box" is a fairly large server board with 4 fans in addition to the cpu fan. Makes a lot of noise especially when the cpu is doing a lot because the fans kick up. No way around it unless you want to:
A - Build a soundproof cabinet, or B - Buy a quieter machine for gaming.
My machine is a huge server setup, but these are modern times, bleeding-edge powerful game machines can be had for not too much and are fairly quiet.
Tell her "That's The Way It Is", or get a new machine.
Except then Uber drivers wouldn't be part time, "picking people up whenever they happen to be going that way" type service.
This idea that most Uber drivers are "part time" and "just headed your way" is garbage. The majority of Uber drivers are full time to the extent that they rely on their Uber income for most of their income.
For example, not the comments from Uber about being kicked out of Nevada:
Beginning tonight, nearly 1,000 jobs disappeared in Nevada and those residents lost their ability to earn a living...
Does that sound like part timers "just headed your way"? No.
Uber (and Lyft) cars are unregulated taxi cabs - albeit nicer cars and much better service - but none the less, taxi cabs.
If cab companies cleaned up their acts by providing good service and got with the modern times and used an app, maybe there would be no Uber or Lyft.
Same reason they don't allow some stores (in the US, typically liquor stores or car dealers) to open on Sundays.
While there are still some "blue laws", for the most part in the US, this isn't so. Certainly not in Washington state, where liquor stores or car dealers are open seven days a week...
...they believe was developed by a wealthy nation-state to spy on a wide range of international targets in diverse industries, including hospitality, energy, airline, and research...
Over the last 25 years of my adult employment, I've worked with many gifted people from many countries including India, Eastern and Western Europe, and a fair number stereotypical North American bone heads. But things seemed to have changed in the last few years We lost all of our Blue Collar jobs the NAFTA (thanks, Bill Clinton), and we are now losing all of our white collar jobs. Soon we will all be Wal-Mart greeters or asking if you want fries with that. Of course, pumping gas went away except in a few states years ago.
Which can be confusing since "Frosty Piss" is my actual name that I use when publishing all my papers, but "Frosty P" is the name I use when I'm scratching rare vinyl at the clubs - I know most dj's just queue it up in their MacBooks, but I'm old school.
I suspect that this "journal" not only provides these guys with extra income, but also serves publication destination for their own dubious science papers.
Of course what keeps these "journals" in business is the fever pitch that academics must publish just to stay relevant in their professional / social strata (and who cares what they publish as long as they do), and their quest for tenure...
Mr. Beall's list has been criticized as being not neutral...
Not by Science Magazine... From Wikipedia:
In 2013, Science published the results of a "sting operation" in which a scientifically flawed spoof publication was submitted to open access publications.[11] Many accepted the manuscript, and a disproportionate number of the accepting journals were on Beall's list. The publication, entitled Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, stated that "The results show that Beall is good at spotting publishers with poor quality control: For the publishers on his list that completed the review process, 82% accepted the paper."[11] Beall agreed, saying that the author of the sting, John Bohannon, "basically found what I've been saying for years."
Leading brick and mortar retailers in India have refused to sell Android One handsets ever since the US company chose to launch its products exclusively online.
If they are only available on-line, how would mortar retailers be selling them anyway, unless they were buying them on-line and marking the price up? What consumer would go for that?
Indeed. This is the kind of story I like to see here now and then, although I was surprised that the headline didn't start off with "10 year old genius builds super computer on a bread board..." as has been the trend here.
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You don't like what he says? Don't buy his music.
Didn't read the story, did you?
I hear you. But this is a duel cpu / duel NIC server board running not just my "desktop", but all my server dev software. Got to develop on something with a similar profile...
What if his wife is also a gamer?* What if there is no other suitable room?
If "the wife" was a gamer, she would not be bringing up the issue of the noise from the game box. Move on.
Cursive is an art form, best left to those who have a reason to become competent at it (calligraphists).
It may be an "art form" now, since schools don't teach it, but I use it every day and I'm only 50.
At interviews, one of the things I do is hand the job-seeker a yellow pad and a sheet of paper with some text. I ask them to transcribe it to the yellow pad. The first strike is if the interviewee has no writing implement.
Being able to write with a pen and paper is a sign of intelligence and education. Inability to do so means you will not be working where I work.
What are you doing "gaming" in the living room? Dude, you are now MARRIED. Turn the spare bedroom into your "man cave". The living room is your wife's domain.
My Linux "box" is a fairly large server board with 4 fans in addition to the cpu fan. Makes a lot of noise especially when the cpu is doing a lot because the fans kick up. No way around it unless you want to:
A - Build a soundproof cabinet, or
B - Buy a quieter machine for gaming.
My machine is a huge server setup, but these are modern times, bleeding-edge powerful game machines can be had for not too much and are fairly quiet.
Tell her "That's The Way It Is", or get a new machine.
Except then Uber drivers wouldn't be part time, "picking people up whenever they happen to be going that way" type service.
This idea that most Uber drivers are "part time" and "just headed your way" is garbage. The majority of Uber drivers are full time to the extent that they rely on their Uber income for most of their income.
For example, not the comments from Uber about being kicked out of Nevada:
Beginning tonight, nearly 1,000 jobs disappeared in Nevada and those residents lost their ability to earn a living...
Does that sound like part timers "just headed your way"? No.
Uber (and Lyft) cars are unregulated taxi cabs - albeit nicer cars and much better service - but none the less, taxi cabs.
If cab companies cleaned up their acts by providing good service and got with the modern times and used an app, maybe there would be no Uber or Lyft.
Same reason they don't allow some stores (in the US, typically liquor stores or car dealers) to open on Sundays.
While there are still some "blue laws", for the most part in the US, this isn't so. Certainly not in Washington state, where liquor stores or car dealers are open seven days a week...
It's not about making machines smarter than us, it's about making machines that replace us in the workforce.
I agree, the synergies here are obvious...
Ha ha ha... He said "synergies" ...
Oh yeah, gripe about product placement all over SlashDice.com...
It's hilarious reading a bunch of French people arguing about who is more French! Just a Monty Python moment...
Elon Musk...
What is that?
Like AXE?
...they believe was developed by a wealthy nation-state to spy on a wide range of international targets in diverse industries, including hospitality, energy, airline, and research...
Hello, China...
Check out the list of reasons for why certain publishers are on the list...
Sounds reasonable to me.
I didbn't publish this paper. I submitted the story to Slashdot.
Your spell-checker ruined the fun or did you not notice that they have an editorial borad?
Than it should be fine for submission to the above mentioned "journal" as well as many others and Slashdot!
I'm not trying to tar and feather Indian technologists, I know that the who subject feeds into our US domestic politics and the whole H1-B quagmire. But have a look at the "editorial board" of this and other simular fraudulant "journals, and than remember a recent Slashdot story:
https://politics.slashdot.org/...
Over the last 25 years of my adult employment, I've worked with many gifted people from many countries including India, Eastern and Western Europe, and a fair number stereotypical North American bone heads. But things seemed to have changed in the last few years We lost all of our Blue Collar jobs the NAFTA (thanks, Bill Clinton), and we are now losing all of our white collar jobs. Soon we will all be Wal-Mart greeters or asking if you want fries with that. Of course, pumping gas went away except in a few states years ago.
And dig! They're afraid to post your full nick...
Which can be confusing since "Frosty Piss" is my actual name that I use when publishing all my papers, but "Frosty P" is the name I use when I'm scratching rare vinyl at the clubs - I know most dj's just queue it up in their MacBooks, but I'm old school.
Also note the "Editorial Board" for this illustrious publication: http://www.ijact.org/eb.htm
I suspect that this "journal" not only provides these guys with extra income, but also serves publication destination for their own dubious science papers.
Of course what keeps these "journals" in business is the fever pitch that academics must publish just to stay relevant in their professional / social strata (and who cares what they publish as long as they do), and their quest for tenure...
Mr. Beall's list has been criticized as being not neutral...
Not by Science Magazine... From Wikipedia:
In 2013, Science published the results of a "sting operation" in which a scientifically flawed spoof publication was submitted to open access publications.[11] Many accepted the manuscript, and a disproportionate number of the accepting journals were on Beall's list. The publication, entitled Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, stated that "The results show that Beall is good at spotting publishers with poor quality control: For the publishers on his list that completed the review process, 82% accepted the paper."[11] Beall agreed, saying that the author of the sting, John Bohannon, "basically found what I've been saying for years."
Of course I didn't use the word "F******" in my submission, but I suppose Slashdot must be couth.
Anyway, here's a link to the actual paper (warning: PDF) - http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~d...
Leading brick and mortar retailers in India have refused to sell Android One handsets ever since the US company chose to launch its products exclusively online.
If they are only available on-line, how would mortar retailers be selling them anyway, unless they were buying them on-line and marking the price up? What consumer would go for that?
Hats off.
Indeed. This is the kind of story I like to see here now and then, although I was surprised that the headline didn't start off with "10 year old genius builds super computer on a bread board..." as has been the trend here.
Please note that is the claim of the *prosecutor* and not the claim of the women actually involved.
Wrong. These charges were the result of specific complaints by both of the ladies involved.
Before VISA cards existed...
When was this? I'm 51 and when I was a tiny child, my folks had a Visa card...